@mattcantstop We run into a problem where we are thinking of intelligence as “skills and knowledge my circle values” and then fully discount unfamiliar skills and knowledge. You don’t know what you don’t know.
@ninajoss_ So, glad everyone is okay! I used to live in that building next door. (The address is 5654, not 5464 like it says in the article and photo caption, btw.)
@hankgreen It’s not just the lack of surprise conflict, there’s also a lack of surprise weird which made old Twitter fun. Alternatives feel sanitized, which is sometimes good but also bad.
Has anyone lived in their town long enough that they’re constantly saying sentences like “Yknow the new coffee shop in the place that used to be the dispensary and was the bead shop before that, next door to the place that used to be the bike repair place and became the Asian food market and is now the Jimmy John’s.”
A thing that frustrates me when we talk about climate change—and there are so many things, god knows—is how many people seem to think any change in lifestyle = death/doom/total collapse of civilization/Mad Max leather gangs roaming the wastes.
@twinklepriccio I think it was tending because it’s been hitting the “big enough for trolls, abusers, general assholery to be more visibly an issue” tipping point enough for some bigger names to write about it, unfortunately.
what's even the point of being on this god-forsaken web site if there's no fat bear week?
The right wing of the U.S. Congress wants to restrict our freedom to read AND our access to fat bears? Unacceptable.
The last few months of this website has been a little bit like if your drug dealer were to slowly but reliably make the drugs less fun and more tedious.
Many Americans think that Hawai'ians lived in huts prior to colonization. The US actually de-industrialized Hawai'i. Before 1898, Hawai'i already had mass transit, railroads. The city of Honolulu was lit by nationalized, renewable hydropower before the White House had electricity